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J J JUNE 2012 Q-RACING JOURNAL ≤U R N A DERBY FEVER RICH RACING FOR OLDER HORSES ROY BROOKS AGE IS RELATIVE L SOUTH TEXAS THE CRADLE OF GREAT RUNNERS CONTENTS - 2012 STATISTICS racing FEATURES 8 ≤uarter Paths: Joe Moore 60 Race Leaders by Category By Richard Chamberlain The son of a foundation sire carried on the name. 62 Grade 3 and Ungraded Stakes Charts 12 ≤uarter Chatter 16 Making Runners 68 Grade 1 and Grade 2 Stakes Charts By Richard Chamberlain Follow along with 2-year-olds on the track. 70 Leading Sires by Money Earned Part of a continuing series 71 Leading Sires by Winners 20 Lofty Alibi By Andrea Caudill BP Cartels Alibi cashes in the Heritage Place Futurity. 72 Leading Sires by 2-Year-Old Money Earned 24 Cold Invitational By Andrea Caudill 73 Leading Sires by 2-Year-Old Cold Cash 123 dominates a tough field in Winners the Remington Park Invitational Championship. journal 28 Ruidoso Runners 74 Leading Sires by Distances By Andrea Caudill PJ Chick In Black wins the Ruidoso 79 Leading First-, Second- Futurity, Executive Brass wins the Derby. and Third-Year Sires 34 Roy Brooks By Richard Chamberlain 82 Leading Broodmare Sires by Simple is as simple does. Money Earned 42 Ontario Onward 83 Leading Broodmare Sires by By Richard Chamberlain 2-Year-Old Money Earned The sky hasn’t fallen in Ontario. Not yet, anyway. 84 Leading Dams by Money Earned 46 Derby Fever By Denis Blake Lucrative purses for 3-year-olds are catching 85 Leading Horses by Money Earned the attention of owners and trainers. 86 Leading Owners by Money Earned 52 Horses In Parradise By Richard Chamberlain 87 Leading Breeders The South Texas brush country was a cradle June 2012 of the modern American Quarter Horse. by Money Earned The official publication 56 Challenge Surprises 88 Leading Trainers by Money Earned of the American Quarter By Andrea Caudill Horse Association. Surprise Ending closes the Sam Houston meet in style. About the cover 89 Leading Jockeys by Money Earned A Louisiana morning By Taylor Anne VanBebber 2 JUNE 2012 Q-RACING JOURNAL Bay Colt Sorrel Filly Bay Colt Okey Dokey Dale – Eyesaspecial Eyesaspecial Fashion – Sexy Sequel Fashion – Hidden Miss Wide Open by Dash For Cash Blessings by by Special Effort Half-brother to Special Leader Half-brother to Stakes Placed Winner Half-sister to Stakes Placed Winner JUSTA Stakes Winner STORM WINDS GAYLA AFFAIR SIXAFLYING QUARTER≤ PATHS Joe Moore The son of a foundation sire carried on the name. By Richard Chamberlain OTT ADAMS WAS FACING A QUANDARY. THE HORSEMAN HAD ONE But at least the horseman had what looked of the greatest sires in Quarter Horse history on his ranch at to be a suitable replacement. Joe Moore grew Alice, Texas. The horse – Little Joe, a son of Traveler out of the into a fine-looking bay stallion (though his Sykes Rondo mare Jenny – was foaled in 1905 and now, at the head left something to be desired). dawn of the Roaring Twenties, Adams knew the day was Nonetheless, Joe Moore from the throatlatch approaching when he would have to find a replacement for the back was a splendid Quarter Horse, a per- stallion. fectly proportioned, well-muscled stallion Turn to Page 52 to read “Horses in Parradise” – Quarter with sloping shoulders, straight forelegs with Horses in the area of South Texas ruled by George Parr. Of all short cannons, a good barrel, and strong hips the Quarter Horses that the “Duke of Duval” bred, none were and hind legs, all packed into a 14.2-hand more successful than Parr Passum, the sire of AQHA racing frame. champions Tonto Parr and Above Parr 2. The stallion by Adams liked him from the day he was born. Danger Boy II was out of a mare by Joe Moore. Writing in “Sires of Speed” in the November Joe Moore was one of the best sons, if not the best son, of 1950 Quarter Horse Journal, Montague Little Joe. Rockingham warned breeders “who are trying Back to the quandary: Adams had an outstanding band of to produce speed” not to overlook “old Joe Obroodmares – he called them his “wax dolls” – but so far none Moore. He was used most of his life in the had produced what he was looking for. He took a big step production of ranch stock, but his great heri- toward finding Little Joe’s successor when he got the chance tage of speed has been successfully passed on to buy the Old DJ mare Della Moore, the fabulous Cajun to many sprinting favorites, grandsons and match racer who was born to run. Out of the Dewey mare La granddaughters as well as direct get.” Hernandez, Della Moore and her full sister Old Queenie also Here, finally, was a stallion that Adams were born to mother. Old Queenie became the second dam of could use to continue Little Joe’s line, a fam- the club-footed Flying Bob mare Queenie, the 1945 world ily that also included Zantanon (“the Man champion racing Quarter Horse, while Della Moore’s first O’War of Mexico”), who sired King P-234, baby was the Joe Blair (TB) stallion Joe Reed, who founded San Siemon and Ed Echols and carries on the family that flowered through Joe Reed II, Leo and First today through Zan Parr Bar, Smart Little Down Dash. Lena and Corona Cartel. Joe Moore went on to Even then, that kind of blood did not come cheap. Buying get superior ranch and performance horses Della Moore cost Adams $600, a sizable sum in 1922. Adams such as Hobo, Adam, Kitty Wells, Buddy bred the mare to Little Joe the day she arrived on his ranch. Lewis, Lucky Boots, Pay Day, V Day, Jo Mo The result, however, was a filly that Adams named Aloe and Ca, Jo Etta, Lee Moore, Poquita Mas and soon sold to another noted horseman, John Dial of Goliad. numerous others. But Joe Moore also sired Joe Della Moore was dry the next year, as she turned out to be Less, whose daughter No Butt became the every other year. The year after that, she produced Grano De racing world champion in 1962, while old Joe Oro, a fine son of Little Joe but still not what Adams was seek- himself also sired racing champions Stella ing. Moore and Monita. Della Moore’s next baby was Joe Moore, who was foaled Stella Moore went undefeated in three offi- March 23, 1927 (or 1926; reports vary). In any case, Joe Moore cial races as a 2-year-old in 1947 and was the was born either the year or the year after Adams, under severe racing champion mare in 1952, set at least financial pressure, was forced to sell Little Joe to a rancher at five track records and equaled another in her Junction, Texas. career – which ended in retirement shortly 8 JUNE 2012 Q-RACING JOURNAL after she defeated Monita and other top sprinters in the 1953 Joe Moore’s blood carries on today. World champion Cold New Mexico State Fair Championship at Albuquerque. Stella Cash 123 traces topside to the old horse through his sire Oak Moore, whose dam was the Chicaro Bill mare Canova, went on Tree Special, while other leading sires such as PYC Paint Your to produce six starters, each of whom returned as winners, Wagon and Shazoom go back there on bottom. including Ima Moore, who in 1968 won the inaugural All Adams, however, once again found himself in financial American Congress Futurity at Beulah Park in Ohio. Stella straits. He sold Joe Moore to J. Rogers, who ranched at Moore’s most famous offspring was the Be Sure Now (TB) Menard, Texas, and then spent sleepless nights until he was gelding Segura Miguel, who at Ruidoso Downs on Labor Day able to rescind the sale and bring him home. When Joe Moore 1957 won the first running of the Southwestern Futurity, the died, Adams buried him near Little Joe, whose bones he had forerunner of the sport’s marquee event, the All American brought back from Junction and interred on his ranch at Futurity (G1). Alice. Today, all three – Little Joe, Joe Moore and Ott Adams And then, of course, there was Monita. Out of the Priory – sleep under the same South Texas soil in Parradise. (TB) mare Goodwin’s Juanita, Monita was just beginning to So back to another quandary: It’s 1927 (or’26): One of the hit her stride when Rockingham set in writing his advice to greatest mares in history had just foaled a real nice baby by breeders. Monita won her only official start as a 2-year-old in Little Joe. What is Adams going to name the successor to one 1949 and came back in 1950 to win two of six races, including of the greatest sires in history? the Meteor Handicap at Bay Meadows. Then she set the Joe More? Quarter world afire, winning the world championship the fol- lowing year and also setting or equaling eight track records Richard Chamberlain is senior writer for AQHA Publications. To while compiling a career record of 89-30-9-11. comment, write to [email protected]. ≤ UARTER Oregon, California Regulate Clenbuterol THE OREGON RACING COMMISSION HAS ADOPTED AN AMENDMENT of racing. “Our industry must do everything we can to protect to limit the medication clenbuterol to 2 picograms in the our horses, horsemen and fans. AQHA is committed to blood of American Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds racing addressing all medications and illegal drugs that are harming in Oregon.